Chapter 125: Experimental Musket (I)
"My lord said that I laughed, I still have to thank the lord, if it weren't for the gold coins you gave me, I wouldn't even be able to eat!"
Brian was holding a large piece of meat in his hand at the moment, full of energy, and wearing a silk shirt, if he was a nobleman, no one would believe it.
"My lord, do you want to sit with me for a while, I just bought a piece of meat from a hunter in the countryside, do you want to taste it!"
"Thank you for your kindness, Brian, I don't dare to go there, it cost me 4 gold coins last time I went back, haha!"
Seeing Brian's elated appearance, Gervais remembered the scene where Brian had breakfast that morning when he went to get his sword, and the hard black bread was his only food, because the black bread was too hard to swallow, and he needed to add a bowl of boiling water and eat it while soaking.
"Ahem...... Cough...... My lord, the last time I received you 4 gold coins was really the cost of the reinforcement materials, and I didn't charge you an extra copper plate. ”
Brian's face instantly turned red, obviously very embarrassed by Gervais's words.
"Just kidding, kidding! Brian, you don't have to take it seriously. ”
Seeing Brian's reaction so violently, Gervais remembered that this is another world, not like the other side of the earth, everyone has been accustomed to casual jokes between friends since childhood, and this world has no concept of humor for both nobles and commoners.
As he spoke, Gervais raised the musket in his hand and politely refused Brian's invitation: "I have something to do now, and I will definitely go to your place to sit when I have time in the future." ”
"Huh! My lord, what do you have in your hand? ”
After listening to Gervais's explanation, Brian finally got rid of the embarrassment, and suddenly saw Gervais shaking the musket, let out a startled sound, and couldn't help but take two steps forward, staring at the musket in Gervais's hand with wide eyes.
"A musket, a weapon, but it's just been made, and I'm about to test its power!"
Hearing Brian's surprise, Gervais laughed, although Brian was unlucky, but the alchemy technology really had nothing to say, Gervais guessed that he must have seen the materials used to make the musket, so he was so surprised.
"My lord, is this 'weapon' forged from Mithril?"
Hearing Gervais say that it was a weapon, Brian's eyes brightened, as an excellent alchemist, the first time he saw the luster of the barrel of the musket, he concluded that this must be a Mithril forging, but he couldn't imagine why such a precious Mithril was used to forge this strangely shaped thing, with neither blades nor spikes, a burning stick alive.
"Yes, Brian, you read that right, this musket is forged from Mithril!"
Gervais smiled and nodded to Brian and gave him an affirmative answer.
"My lord, can I watch you experiment with this weapon?"
Brian was really curious about how Gervais was willing to use Mithril to forge this burning stick, judging from the appearance, just forging this burning stick-like weapon would cost 3 gold coins worth Mithril, so he wanted to see what kind of power a weapon of this price could play.
"Of course Brian, I'll go to the open space outside the castle to experiment now, you can come and watch!"
Brian is also a talent, and a desperate talent, of course Gervais would not object to such a request, so he agreed to Brian's request casually.
"Thank you, Lord Lord, then I won't delay you, Lord Lord, I'll go back and put the meat away and come and watch!"
Brian was very excited to get Gervais's permission, so he saluted Gervais and quickly ran towards his stone house with the piece of meat.
After Brian left, Gervais did not stay any longer, and rode directly to the castle, because of the encounter and conversation with Brian, there was a short delay, and the little maid Anna had already obtained what Gervais ordered from the castle, and waited for Gervais to arrive at the gentle slope of the castle.
After meeting up with Anna, Gervais summoned Ike and told him to go with ten members of the Guard, believing that when they saw the power of the musket, they would understand the use of training to carry the gun.
As for the rest of the guards, today Laurie's team was in charge of guarding the castle, while Audrey's team was already wearing equipment and going to the edge of the mountain range according to the project requested by Gervais, practicing running under heavy loads.
Under the leadership of Gervais, the group came to the open space of the last experimental grenade again, and the huge explosion crater in the open space had not yet been filled, because this large crater was caused by Gervais, and they felt that this represented the incredible feat of Gervais, so no one would destroy the appearance of this place until Gervais gave an order.
"Anna, give me the vest and leather armor first!"
Arriving at the location, Gervais rolled over and dismounted, and came to Anna's side.
"Here you go, sir!"
Anna heard Gervais's command, and quickly took the battle vest and leather armor off the saddle and handed them to Gervais.
"Ike, send two men to set up a stake next to the big pit, and fix this leather armor to the stake."
Taking the battle vest and leather armor from Anna's hand, Gervais turned around again and began to tell Ike, this leather armor in his hand was the trophy of the last interception of Lenny's convoy, because Bernard has been full recently, so these worn leather armor have not been sent to be disposed of, and Gervais is just holding the leather armor to test the power of the musket.
"Yes, sir!"
Ike took the 10-member personal guard aside, and after saying that, he stood up and rested for a while, and then heard Gervais's order, and immediately stepped forward to take the leather armor from Gervais's hand, and ordered two team members to walk towards the center of the clearing.
After Icke removed the leather armor, Gervais took out a small leather bag from one of the pockets of the battle vest, which was crescent-shaped in appearance, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and had an iron tube at the opening, which was the characteristic leather bag used to hold gunpowder, and unscrewed the seal on the leather bag, and Gervais began to load the musket.
When Gervais loaded his musket, Brian, who had put the meat home, had already arrived, and saw Gervais operating the Mithril 'weapon' with his head down, so he cheekily took a few steps forward to carefully observe Gervais's every move.
It was also the first time for Gervais to reload a musket, but the other day he had recalled as much as he could from his previous life what he had seen on the Internet.
Gervais first poured gunpowder into the muzzle, because it was the first experiment, Gervais did not dare to pour too much, and stopped pouring after pouring a little.
After the gunpowder was loaded, Gervais stabbed the barrel with the iron drill taken from the musket, compacted the gunpowder in the barrel, and then took a small ball of cotton and stuffed it into the barrel and compacted it with the iron drill again.
After the above work is completed, it is the turn of the lead shot to be put into the barrel, and after the lead shot is put into the barrel, in order to prevent the lead shot from rolling out when the muzzle is down, a ball of cotton is stuffed into the outside of the lead shot, and then compacted with an iron drill.
Rao is Gervais had conceived in his mind many times before, and now when he did it himself, a process of loading ammunition took him five minutes, and by the time he finally finished loading the musket and inserted the iron brazing back into the musket, Ike had already returned with two team members, and a wooden stake had been erected in the distance, and leather armor was fixed on the one-meter-high stake.
With the ammunition reloaded and the target erected, Gervais poured a little gunpowder on the fire door at the end of the barrel, then lit the arquebus, ready to start experimenting with the world's first musket.
"Anna, Brian, you two cover your ears! Others are not allowed to cover their ears."
Before raising his gun, Gervais suddenly glanced around and commanded.